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Category: News
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There’s Still Time to Sign Up for “Accessing Funding for High Tunnels through USDA-NRCS Programs”
The USDA is hosting a webinar on accessing help and funding for high tunnels and small-scale practices for farms and gardens, featuring urban grower Ben Miller.SignUp for USDA programs now for the 2025 application period.
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From the president
The nectar flow peaked in early June but continues. The Summer Solstice Picnic will be postponed due to extreme weather. A weekly newsletter on Tuesdays will feature updates and events. Free queen bees are available on Dave’s personal website.
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Introduction to Medicinal Beekeeping for Apitherapy
An intensive zoom seminar of apitherapy from a team of Romanian and American Apitherapists. Promises to be most interesting!
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The Bee Law in PA
The 1994 bee law allows unlimited apiary registration for $10 every 2 years. The proposed SB1198 law would significantly increase fees for beekeepers. Despite uncertainties, the investment in plant and pollinator monitoring is seen as crucial for the industry’s sustainability.
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Pennsylvania Beekeepers Arise and Unite!
The 2023-2024 US Beekeeping Survey is Live! Go to: https://aub.ie/colonysurvey Apparently a courageous three dozen or so beekeepers from PA have stepped up to their duty to provide DATA. We must
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Please Lobby for Reality Based Beekeeping Miticide Regulation
The Guild is sharing this request from Charles Lindner, Randy Oliver, and others for a change to the Federal legislation that regulates what we can use as miticides in our
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TR7 – Guggenheim Fellow
The Bee Guild does have a favorite artist in Philadelphia and that artist is Taji Ra’oof Nahl. Taji discovered us at the Wyck Rose Festival some years back and we’ve
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Notes from Annual Conference of the American Beekeeping Federation
An update on Tropilaelaps and synthetic honey from the American Beekeeping Federation Meeting, Jan 10-13, 2024. Reported by Ellen Codd.
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Trap Pollen for fun and science!
There’s some urgency to this opportunity. The Center for Pollinator Research at Penn State is seeking beekeeper volunteers in southeast and southwest Pennsylvania to provide weekly samples of pollen trapping
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Conceptos básicos de Apicultura
Penn State Extension is offering a basic bee keeping class is Spanish!